US Patent Issued to Littelfuse on Oct. 28 for "Overcurrent protection of power semiconductor packages using integrated positive temperature indicator" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,856, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Littelfuse Inc. (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Overcurrent protection of power semiconductor packages using integrated positive temperature indicator" was invented by Oluwaseun Kehinde Oyewole (Chicago), Cesar Martinez (Chicago), Sergio Fuentes Godinez (Newark, Calif.), Francois Perraud (Chicago), Marco Doms (Chicago) and Martin Pineda (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device protection arrangement. The semiconductor device protection arrangement may include a semiconductor chip; a controller, coupled to the power semiconductor chip; and a temperature sensor, disposed in therm...